The Order of Time

Paperback, 256 pages

Published Dec. 10, 2019 by Riverhead Books.

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978-0-7352-1611-2
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[L'ordine del tempo][1] ISBD L' ordine del tempo / Carlo Rovelli. - Milano : Adelphi, 2017. - 207 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - (Piccola biblioteca Adelphi ; 705). - [ISBN] 978-88-459-3192-5. Livello bibliografico Monografia Tipo documento Testo a stampa Collezione
· Piccola biblioteca Adelphi ; 705 Titolo uniforme · L' ordine del tempo | Rovelli, Carlo <1956- > Nomi
· [Autore] Rovelli, Carlo <1956- > Soggetti
· Fisica - Teorie Classificazione Dewey
· 530.01 (23.) FISICA. Filosofia e teoria Lingua di pubblicazione ITALIANO Lingua dell'opera originale ITALIANO Paese di pubblicazione ITALIA [Codice identificativo IT\ICCU\RMS\2813556][2]

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What is time? What does it really mean to say that time ‘passes’? Do we exist in time, or does time exist in us? What is the meaning of now?

These are the questions that Carlo Rovelli tries to answer in The Order of Time. He takes us on a journey on how our understanding of the concept of time has changed from antiquity to the present and into the field of quantum gravity, his area of expertise. It is a magma of beautiful and exciting ideas, from physics to philosophy, “sometimes illuminating, sometimes confusing.”

We perceive time as one dimensional thing, it has a direction, the past is completely different from the future. The past seems to be one of the most obvious things, it is fixed, we have traces of it, we have memories, there are books to read and learn about the past. Time is …

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